ROMANS 6 : 1-14

Introduction
1. Paul preaching Grace alone, Faith alone, Christ alone
2. Jewish legalism
3. Romans. 5:20b

Verse 1- Paul anticipates a question
• Accusation of antinomianism
• Charge against Luther and the reformers
• They answered it using Romans 6

Verse 2- Paul begins to answer the question
• Justification – forensic, declaration, imputation of righteousness
• Regeneration, transformation, sanctification
• Our Union with Christ constitutes the above two.
Paul’s Explanation
• We died to sin
• We cannot still live in it

Verse 3a – STEP 1 -We are immersed in Christ
• Union with Christ – Galatians 3:27, 1 Corinthians 10:2, 1 Corinthians 6:17
Verse 3b- STEP 2- We are immersed into His death (Galatians 2:20, Colossians 2:20, 2 Timothy 2:11)
• He died for us. He died in our place as a substitute. He died our death.
• God counts it as if it was our death.

Verse 4 & 5- STEP 3- Just as Christ was raised, we too will be raised.
• We have been raised (verse 13, Colossians 2:12, Colossians 3:1-3)
STEP 4- Walk in the newness of life (Result)
• New creation – New nature- New principle of life- Regeneration- Being born again (Ezekiel 36: 26-27, 2 Corinthians 5:17,14,15, Galatians 6: 14,15, Ephesians 4:24)
Verse 6 – STEP 5- How did it happen?
• Old self – old unregenerate nature- not physical body
• What I was in Adam – old nature – old – 2 Greek words – archaios(time) & palaios(useless self, worn out self)
• Crucified- Not a process but a past reality – old nature no more exists – Christian battle is not a battle between 2 nature
• Body of sin might be brought to nothing
• Body of sin – sin entity- NOT physical body
• But now that our old self is crucified, 2 things happen
 Sin entity is without effect, deprived of its controlling power
 We are no longer enslaved

HENCE verse 7 – For he who has died is freed from sin
Verse 8
• Verse 7 (negatively) – we are no more slaves to sin
• Verse 8(positively)- If we are united to Christ in death, we will also be united to him in the newness of life in the resurrected Christ (romans 5:10).
• Galatians 2:20- It is no longer I who live, Christ live in me.

Verse 9 & 10 – Resurrected Christ and Death
• Raised from dead
• Will never die again, died once and for all
• No longer has dominion
• Died to sin. Both as a Penalty and Power.
• Lives to God

Question: But Christian do sin, why?
Answer: The mortal body which was under the influence of the old self and the dominion of the sin entity still remains.
Question: How then shall we live?
Answer: Verse 11 – Count yourselves dead to sin and alive to God – IN Christ
Verse 12&13 – Offer- Present- Yield
• Do not offer your body to sin (1 Corinthians 9:27)
• Offer yourself to God
• Be instruments of righteousness (John 15:12, Ephesians 2:10)

Verse 14 – Reasons why we are called to offer our lives

Application (outside text)
• Test of true conversion
• Formula of Roman Catholicism – Faith + Works = Justification
 Of Reformation – Faith= Justification + Works
 Of antinomianism- Faith= Justification- Works
• Baptism – Luther: “Get away from me. I am baptized”.
 Saddest thing in Christendom today is the focus on the peripheral questions related to Baptism while neglecting the central and weighty things.